The Dodgers are seven games out of first place in the Western Division. What does this have to do with you?
According to today's Daily Breeze, people drink more beer at Dodger Stadium when their team is losing than when they are winning. Why?
- When we are winning we want to stay with the game -- we don't want to miss anything.
- When we are losing, the game is at best boring, and maybe even depressing, so we want to escape, but they won't let us go out into the parking lot and run around and come bak.
- A big margin of loss breed hopelessness, despite the Dodgers' eighth inning theme song, "don't stop believing."
As usual, baseball is like life. Success is a wonderful indicator of happiness. The more successful we feel, the happier we are, the more connected, involved, energetic. And success is a state of mind. Baseball has a pretty definite idea of success -- are we winning or not? Life is a little less well defined, thank God.
We get to decide what means success for us, right this minute. Some days getting out of bed and getting in the shower and calling a friend is success. Some days it's nailing that $10,000 project. Somedays it's a sacrifice fly, some days it's a home run. Almost doesn't matter, as long as we experience a little success every day.
How were you successful already today?
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